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Allied Academies' Journal of Forensic Genetics and Medicine

It appears that this North Carolina publisher is allied with the more notorious OMICS group. For example, its Journal of Forensic Genetics and Medicine uses the Los Angeles street address that is in OMICS' contact information ; Beall's page has more on this association. (Update 11/1/17: Allied Academies' website now has an address of "40 Bloomsbury Way, Lower Ground Floor" in London. This address also is used by Pulsus -- an OMICS company .) It spams for conference speakers with absolutely no qualifications (such as the one sent to me, a lawyer, "because of your eminence in the diabetes"). As the emails of 11/23/16 and 6/13/17 show, Allied cannot even keep the names of its journals straight. It thinks its "confidential" advertising has "work product immunity," and it denies that its emailed promises and claims are "given or endorsed by the company." After about a year of spamming for articles, the journal has an issue -- c...